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Perfect winter lunch

Every December, when we're in California, we go to our friends' house for lunch. And every year they make the same meal: Cauliflower soup, a green salad, gruyere and crusty French bread. They put avocados in the salad, since they live in LA and have an avocado tree in their backyard, but a plain green salad would be just as delicious. Can't wait to have it again this year!

I'm willing to bet my winter lunch would come in a close second to this. My lunch: roasted tomato & paprika soup (from Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks) with a grilled cheese sandwich. Yum. I might have to try this cauliflower soup next week!

Wow! LA is pretty amazing like that - I have a lemon tree and an orange tree in my back yard. But I'd kill for an avocado tree! How fabulous. Cauliflower soup sounds divine... must pick up ingredients to make this at the farmer's market next weekend :)

Funny you mention avocados because I have a whole bunch of 'em picked off my parents' trees from when I was home for Thanksgiving weekend. :) (Yes, I live in California.) And this meal looks delicious after the heartiness of the weekend eating.

Now that is my idea of a perfect lunch. This looks soooo good! I have never had cauliflower soup, but it sure sounds amazing. I am spoiled by having access to fresh avocados anytime I want them and I am fortunate to live in California and have a friend with an avocado tree:-)

YUM, that sounds divine! When I lived in SoCal and we bought 4 avocados every week at the farmers' market (year round!) I used to LOVE making a salad of butter lettuce, persimmon slices, and pecans with a simple honey mustard dressing - try it, it'll totally transport you to Cali!

I used to work at a tea salon that served light meals. One day we were told to upsell Cauliflower soup- my first thought was "how the heck are we supposed to do that?!" Well they -made- us try it and it was delicious! It had small pieces of bacon in it too though so maybe they cheated a bit. (: